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I went Google Insights for Search today. That is an intersting thing. "HTC Hero" term is rising popularity, 120% increased with these 7 days in Hong Kong. I guess that is because HTC Hero will be released on September at Hong Kong.

On last Friday, my colleague recommended Trillian Astra to me. It can open
MSN, Yahoo!, MySpaceIM, AIM, Gmail, ICQ, Jabber, Skype, IRC, Facebook, and Twitter. One client is for a ton of IM! The things I love to use is Twitter. I have not found any Twitter client for Windows, besides Trillian.

After the new star, Bing, launched their service. Thay brought a big impact to the search engine market. Google started the sandbox testing their search core, Caffeine. Today, I read an article from eweek. Yahoo has a new search framework too.

Read More:
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/yahoo/post_4.html

Recently, Google has added some sharing functions to their reader. Moreover, there is a list of their high Profile users, Power Readers. They has released the second series, included Politics as well.

Find out more:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/finding-great-stuff-to-read-with-google.html

Nokia gave a press release about their first netbook, Booklet 3G. In the press release, the new netbook will have 3G(HSDPA), wi-fi and Bluetooth. It got 10-inch HD glass screen AGPS and 12 hours battery life. That is very impressive.

For Operation System, that is not running their OS or Linux. That is Windows Based. I can guess that is Windows 7, from the Promotion Video.

Besides of the hardware specifications, it looks stylish as well. In the photo released to the media and the Promotion Video, it looks very thin and there are three colors to choose, Black, White and Blue.

Nokia will have a offical launch it on 2nd September.

Find out more:

Nokia Press Release
Nokia Booklet 3G Promotion Video

Android does not come with a task manager. So, you can find your own. But Thanks the community, there are a number of free task management applications in Android Market.

It has a very easy to use interface. This is a Task View, which is grouped the tasks by applications. Moreover, you can kill multiple applications by selecting them.

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I found out how to screen capture in Android. I don't need to install any apps from Market and that is completely free. All you need is Android SDK and a few easy steps as following:
1.Install SDK
2.Go to your Android Phone.(I am using HTC Magic with Android 1.5)
3.Open Settings.
4.Go to Applications
5.Go to Development
6.Checked USB debugging
7.Your phone to computer via USB
8.Load ddms under [Android-sdk]\tools
9.You will see a list of Android devices connected.
10. Select your phone, there should be only one device with phone icon like this:


11.Selec Menu Device->Screen Capture....
That is!

I found the project of this month. That is quite interesting. That calls eyeOS which is a cloud OS. Actually, that is a web application to provide OS functions like Office and Calendar. Moreover, I have used Windows4All. I found eyeOS is simpler than Windows4All which needs SliverLight. eyeOS is using Ajax and PHP.

The screen looks like Gnome and very clear.

The calendar in the syste,

eyeOffice supports Word Doc and Open Office file format.

Lastly, you can get a free account to use eyeOS on eyeos.info.

Read more:
http://sourceforge.net/community/potm-200908/
http://www.eyeos.org

I found the articles about Windows 7 on CNET Australia. Those are very good. They went into great detials and comparing XP vs Vista vs Windows 7

Read More:
http://www.cnet.com.au/microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-339297322.htm (Home Premium)
http://www.cnet.com.au/microsoft-windows-7-professional-339297309.htm (Professional)

I read the blog post from Google Offical Blog. Google integrated their Google Groups with Google Apps such as Doc, Calendar and Sites. The users can share their data in thier apps across to their group.

Read More:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharing-with-google-groups.html

My CF Card was corrupted on Wednesday. I lost all photo I took on that day. But I found a software in Download.com, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery. Today, I used that to recover all photo.

Google said iGoogle supports OpenSocial. The iGoogle gadget can use OpenSocial in US and Australia.

Read More:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/08/igoogle-adds-support-for-opensocial.html

Previously, I believed chaning menu title is in Menus->Menu Manager and edit the menu -> title. That is only for display at administration side. To change the display name in front page, you go to Extensions-> Module Manager. Each menu is related to a module, for example, there is a Main Menu module. So, you need to edit the module for changing the title.

Not long ago, a security release of WordPress has been pushed to the user. There are a new one today at http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/2-8-4-security-release/.

In their Blog, there is a news about new three tools for websites. Firstly, web elements is to provide some Google Gadgets, such as news, chat and Calendar. Secondly, Page Speed to profiling the speed of your website. Lastly, that is a website contains tips for webmasters about using Google's services.

Yesterday, I got my Windows 7 VM working. It took a number of minutes to boot up. That looks a improved version of Windows Vista.

That is very similar with Windows Vista. The major change is on quick launcher, the icons in there is larger.

This is the specifications of my VM.

The most impressive feature is the Stricky Notes which is very useful. It can help me to remember the important task!

I am trying to build a Windows 7 Release Candidate VM. I have finished the setup from CD. But it stop at hardware detection screen for an hour, so I have to pause the VM.
I will turn it on again before I go to sleep, let it run over-night

I found Skype has API for developers. I can using Skype4COM to allow my C# code to access Skype, so that I can make a call or send a SMS via Skype from my C# application.

There are a lot of detialed tutorials in this URL:
https://developer.skype.com/Docs/Skype4COM/Example?action=show

WordPress 2.8.3 is released. They said this is a security release for 2.8.1. So, I think everyone should download that.
Please download at
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/

Moreover, I read an article at WordPress.org. 2.9 will come very soon.

I found a good tutorial about importing outlook contacts. Basically, you can use Outlook COM object to access the contacts.

Read more:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/rambab/OutlookIntegration10282006032802AM/OutlookIntegration.aspx

Today, I open my Gmail. I found there is a POP3 download feature!

That is quite expensive to buy a softcase for my netbook, HP Mini 1000. It will cost around $20. But I found one in eBay that is under $9 included the postage.

That looks cool and can protect my HP Mini.